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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-06-11

work, my word for it they will
never regret the day.
Thirteen years ago I built the
mill we now run. | invested my
all with the people Of Frankfort
and Franklin county. coming here
from Woodford county. My
father, mother, wife, and children,
brothers and sisters are buried on
the hill-moving the remains of
most Of them from my old home
here. All my earthly interests
are mostly conferred here. l have
tried at all times to do right, to
wrong no man. Without taxa
ton, this State and county of ours
would have made but little pro-
gress. Hence | appeal to sober,
sensible citizens of Frankfort and
Franklin county to come up and
toe the mark" and learn at last
what this company proposes to
do. Not say Il am opposed to
all taxation from principle" and
lam opposed to voting taxes on
other peoples property" when
you have been doing it all your
lives. Tie government could not
stand without taxation, State or
National. | know some who are
so afraid Of paying IS cents more
on the 500, which will be the
amount of the interest on the
bonds per annum that it will break
them up, when the difference will
be only sI.5o on the $1,000, on
$40, 900 SI3. 90 per annum. Who
is there that cannot pay this,
even if there is nothing to be
gained by it?
Some people say Bald Knob,
Benson, Peaks Mill and Bridge
port people will not be convinced,
but | for one do not believe one
word Of it. Ifthey will only come
out and listen. Almost every one
| have talked with has softened
down. Right here | would say to
those who are for the road, treat
every one kindly, and instruct
those who are opposed fully (some
| know will not be instructed, will
not even LISTEN and they will yield
their opposition and become
friends Of the enterprise! l know
every man in the county will make
money by the building of the
road. Enough for this time.
JOHN +. MILES.
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From Sleepy Hollow.
Dear Roundabout.

Dear Roundabout.
We see in the Sulphur Springs
correspondence that Dan Moore,
having cast his vote in favor Of
submitting the railroad question to
the people, is given to understand
that he has served his last term as
magistrate.
Well! | have talked with Dan
and he says he has only done
what he believed to be right and
for the best interests of his people,
and that he would do the same
again if the question were to come
up in the same way. He says he
can't please everybody, and has
quit trying long ago.
There have been twenty con-
verts that have come out in favor
of the road last week. May the
good Lord enlighten many more
before the election. What is good
for the people of one section Of
the county is good for all.
Dave Moore was the young man
who had the brush fence, and
Dave is red hot railroad man at
that.
Now if they will only let Dan
alone (he has no AK to grind and
no interest except what is for the
good Of his people,, and go to
work and help the railroad, it will
be a boom for the whole county,
and every citizen will reap his
share of the benefit.
Hurrah for the railroad!
/ OUR.
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TFOr the Roundabout.
Your Birthday.
BY N. S. c.

If had golden favors to bestOw
/ dare not give them, for know
You want no dazzling, ieweled crown.
The wealth of sunny tress that crowns you, dear
Is fitting dadem for you to wear
No Otner need be found.
If had choice of FlOra's fairest flowers
would not take them from the sylvan bowers
To grace thy perfect loneliness.
Thine eyes, the tender blue OF viOletS. reveal
My fears to meet thy gaze, else should feel
More keenly my distress.
If had pearls of ocean given me
l would not deign to offer them to thee,
The thought itself were sin.
Thy rosebud lips. my precious little girl,
Are hiding now a quarrelet of pearl,
And fairy footprints nestle In thy chin.
And so thy birthday passes thus away,
have no gift to offer thee to-day,
make no foolish vow.
only pray that God will keep you free
And some bright summer send you back to me,
As sweet and true as now.
APRIL 18TH, 1887.
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Communicated.
FRANKFORT, KY,
June 9th, 1887.

Dear RoNuQab0Mt:
l closed my last by saying
"every business man should belong
to the Board of Trade" and will
now say no business man can
afford to stay out Of it, for the rea-
son that the world is on the move.
The city of Frankfort has COM
menced moving. She has been
asleep for 100 years. She has
turned over in her sleep and open
ed her eyes and made up her mind
to move with the rest Of the world,
and the man doing business here
who still sleeps and refuses to get
up and move with the dreamy
eyed maiden" will find he will be
left, if he still expects to do bust
ness on the principle Of our fore
fathers and ourselves to the pres
ent time.
The manner of doing business
has changed. Competition, in all
departments of trade, is sharp and
close, not only with the business
man. but with the farmers also.
Everything is now done on small
margins. Years ago 5 or 10 cents
per bushel was no drawback on
special lots of wheat. Now we
figure to eighths and quarters of
cent on bushel. The farmer has
to do the same thing with every
thing ne has for sale. Years ago
he could hold and command bis
own prices. Now it is very differ
ent. There have to be "quick
sales and small profits. They
have learned "a nimble six-pence
is better than a slow shilling"
making money by doing larger
business. And the farmer who
fails to "catch on, l care not how
small farm he has, or how poor,
has to wake up and "catch the
STEP or he is left. 1t is not the
amount of money we make. Of
course the farmer with the small,
poor farm cannot make as much as
the farmer with the large. rich
farm. But the large and small
farmer both can make more money
than they are now doing, by cult
waiting less land and cultivating it
more thoroughly, and raise
greater variety than they are now
raising
/ know a man in Woodford
county, three miles south Of Mill
vile, who bought small, worn
out farm-worn out since my earli-
est recollection-who would not
exchange it today, acre for acre,
for the best land in the county.
He has made more money, and is
making more money to-day, acre
for acre, than any other farmer in
Woodford county. He is doing it
almost without any hired help,
raising strawberries, raspberries,
blackDerries, almost wholly. Sell
ing them in this place, Versailles,
and the country around, and max
ing the blackberries into wine.
OF course do not advocate the
wine question, but if this man had
facilities for getting his blackberries
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No. IS, leave Lexington 500 p. M, arrive Paris
S.+a p. m.
NOTE.-Trains and are daily between Win
chester, Lexington and Cincinnati other trains
daily except Sunday
Direct connection IS made at Winchester with
Chesapeake and Ohio for Mt. sterling, Ashland,
Cities.
Fast Line. Nos. and 4 run via Winchester.
Solid Trains, with Pullman Sleeping Cars. between
Cincinnati and Richmond, Va, and Winchester
and Washington, ID. c.
Through Tickets and Baggage Checked to any
destination reached by a railroad
For full particulars address call on any agent
Of the company
ID. A. FEELEY, ST. B. MORSE,
Trav. Pass'r Agt., Gen. Pass'r Agt.,
Lexington. Ky. Covngton, KY.
H E. HUNTINGTON, Receiver,
General Offices, Covington, XIV.
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market for corn. In that neigh
borhood, in a radius of three miles,
there we're ten distilleries l can
call to mind, run by farmers to
manufacture the corn they raised
into whisky. rarely ever buying
any. Now the farmer cannot do
this. Times have changed. corpo-
rations have been formed, large
distilleries built. which consume
all the corn grown here and import
largely from other States.
The farmers formerly sold their
corn at from 50 to Is cents per
barrel. Now they get from s2.oo
to So. 90 per matchmaking more
money by selling than by manu-
featuring.
Also in my young days, before
the locking and damming Of the
river, all goods were hauled in
wagons from Louisville to all
points in Central and Southeastern
Kentucky.
When river navigation was es-
tablished, Frankfort was the ship
ping point for Central Kentucky.
The people were taxed in the
State, all over the State, to do this
Freights, before this, were Is cents
to SI.oo per hundred from Louis
vile to this place. Competition
soon commenced on the river, and
freight went down to IS and 20
cents per hundred.
In course of time, railroad was
built from here to Lexington
This road and the river put freights
down to less than two-thirds of
what it was to Lexington. and all
the country beyond got the bene-
fit of this reduction.
So you see the people all
through Central, Southern and
Eastern Kentucky were benefited
by these Improvements.
There are now railroads being
run through the mountains of
Kentucky in several directions,
some connecting with roads in
Tennessee and Virginia, running
to Norfolk and other points. Al
though there is more wealth, in
all of this mountain country, than
there is in the bluegrass region,
nearly all the counties up there
are paupers. We and other por-
tons OF the State paying their
taxes. But, when developed,
their minerals unearthed, and the
sound of the railroad whistle is
heard on the mountains and in the
valleys transporting 20 all sections
of the country and to Europe their
coal, iron, lumber, salt and hun
dred other articles the world is de-
handing, then will that country
blossom like the rose and become
indeed the nursing mother to our
prosperity. The slow, dragging
progress of the people are keeping
them from it in hundreds of ways,
| can and will tell.
In the first place, our laws are
deficient. We need a new Con-
stitution. For this cause people
will not come into our borders.
Another reason is that the laws
we have are not executed. This
every one knows. Foul murder
trials are being EXTENDED from
court to court, until the murderer
is found mot guilty" The world
knows all this.
Another thing, we are behind
the world in internal improve
ments. Capitalists, to any ex-
tent, will not invest anywhere un-
less there is spirit OF go-ahead
tiveness among the people. They
do not wish to be mixed up with
lot of drones. There is not a
place, to my knowledge. to-day,
as we'll located, in the State or out
of it, for business center as the
city of Frankfort. She is the cap
ital, every county in the State has
to come here. There is no getting
around this. but they cannot get
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Carefully compounded. Patent Medicines,
Pure Wines and Liquors for medicinal
purposes,
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POLICE VICTIMS

curye over the wagon and tell between the
second and third companies Of police.
There was = binding flash, al explosion
that was heard two miles and a deep pro-
longed roar, echoing from the buildings
then appalling screams and a volley OF pls-
toll shots. The smoke lifted, and the
ground appeared covered with slaln-but
only for an instant. Two whole companies
of police had been thrown to the ground,
of whom one Matthias j. began, was in
stantly killed, six mOrtally wounded and
sixty Others hurt in various degrees.
But the police rallied at once and with
the frmness and steadiness OF veterans,
they sprang forward, e%mptying their re-
v~olyers into the flying crowd as they went,
and following their shots with their clubs
they cleared the street in less than three
minutes of all save the dead and wounded.
From alley. gutter and hallway came deep
groans and curses.
IL 10 estimated that twenty of the crowd
were killed and abOut 80 wounded. An
Anarchist named Kistlef was killed by the
bomb. Besides Officer began, killed out
right, the policemen who died OF their
wounds were ]. j. Barrett, George Miller,
Timothy, Flanihan, Michael Sheehan,
Thomas Reddin and Neil Hansen. After
the dispersion of the mob came the
saddest scenes Of the occasion. The
dead and wounded policemen were rap
idly conveyed to the station, tine latter
made a. comfortable rs possible and sur
geons called: but not before their wives
and near relatives hurried there, for bad
news flies fast. The tears of some, the
sohs and loud cries of others, the groans,
the gashes, the blood and mangled bodies
all these formed a scene to wiring the
hearts of the pitiful. Within a few
weeks Chicago had contributed $4,000
for the care of the wounded police and
the relief of their families and those OF the
dead.
The bomb used is said 10 have been OF
the same pattern used to kill the Car OF
Russia, and is very we'll shown III the in
itial letter cut OF this account. 1t was
made of composition metal cups fastened
together nearly in the form OF a sphere
with a bolt and nut.
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m. next day, Aug. 20, returned a verdict
of guilty against all the defendants, with .
sentence Of fifteen years in the penitentiary
for Oscar Neebe, and death for the other
seyens
The trial began and ended with sensa-
lions. On the first day A. K. Parsons,
who had escaped and been in hiding,
walked into the court room, announced
his voluntary surrender and took his place
in the dock with his friends. At the
close, when asked by the court If they had
aught to say why sentence Of death should
not be pronounced, they all made long
addresses, those of Parsons and Fielden
being the best. That Of Spies consisted
Of pleading and defiance, reasoning on
liberty and quotations from Sculpture. In
the course of his remarks he spoke Of
Christ as a Socialist. Schwab and Neebe
gave arguments against the regularity OF
this trial. Fielder excited some ~astonish-
ment by saying: "The great Socialist,
Jesus Christ, said ], 300 years ago: Better
that ninety-nine guilty men should go un-
punished than that one innocent man
should suffer-" Judge Gary then SEN
fenced the seven men to be hanged.
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X FAEAL NInHr.

On the evening OF May 4 about 1000
people assembled. The managers placed
the wagon on which the speakers were to
stand a little way up Dssplaines street
from the Hsymarket, by the mouth of a
convenient alley, and at u point where
they could have q full view Of the police
as the latter advanced from their Des-
street station. Mayor Carter Harrison
was in the crowd and expressed some sur
prise at the mildness OF the first speakers,
Spies and Parsons. The crowd was disap-
pointed, too, and was fast melting away,
when Fielden took the stand in the
wagon. His most intimate E0glish friends
could not have recognized the mild Meth
odist exhorter and labOrer of other days.
His frenzied defamation excited what
remained of the crowd, and their applause
reacted on him. It was testified at the
trial that he called for immediate action
in these words:
Arm I Arm ~ Throttle and kill the lswl
Then Inspector Bonield decided to dis
perse the meeting. Seven companies of
policemen, IT'S men, in platoons reaching
from curb to curb, marched from their
station Of Desplajnes stress north to the
wagon. As they drew hear, Fielder IS
sworn to have shouted:
Here come the blOodhounds; You do
YOUR duty and Ill do mise p'
Capt. Ward, of the police, called ont;
sIn the name of the people Of the State
OF Illinois / eOnlmand you to peaeeably
dispersein
Fielden stepped down IOm the wagon
exclaiming:
''We are peaeeable!' .
It was claimed BY the prosecution that
the word i~peseeable' was the signal agreed
on. There was dead silence for perhaps ten
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PUBLIC SALE


1NDER THE AUTHORITY VESTED Is MI
" as executor Of the will Of Ki,ian HrrS, 10
cea'cd. ! will offer al public auction, on The prrm
iBes, on
Wednesday,. November % Iss7.
beginning at 10 O'Clock n. IN the real uni~ry
known ~ the kIcSs Brewery. sind the properly
on which stand a frame tenement h0.IHr neat
he brew cry. both bciTR on The AT SiL. nr War
let street. near seventh. In The City % Wheeling.
" est Virginia. and Icing more part ~crIIHrly ~
scIibed h follows, that II Ia say: lot IumbetId
III on The east side ~ Market street ou ID. cot
ner Of Market and seventh stIccls. with all H."
appnft"naice- thcrcuniu belonging. This - the
same property which came In two ynrn"ls "a Ibe
said kiliaI kreAa, the one from Mann hal forl+-
sIld the other from George Kingdom. The ullo
Is believed IA H. per ect, though 'r!llng ~ shec
utor ! viii only giye a special uauRnty
TERMS OF SAI.E-Ouc.lhiri Of the purchase
money or ~ much more ~ the purchaser rAy
elect, cAAh IN hand on the day ~ sale, and IA"
residue IN two equal instslments, payable IN Que
and two years ait T the day at sale, with inter.
est from that day, the deferred psymrn = being
properly secured. HENRY B~itBLksON
Executor
W. II. TALLER, AuctiOnecr. boji
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As Fl smoke of the Ohio battle clears
away one thing stands out with growing
distinctness. 1t is the bloody shirt. The
spots on it are bright red-nut with blood
let during the war, but with lurid Repub-
lican oratory. Beneath the rag, but not
concealed to those who look twice, IS
the hideous skeleton ofthe dead Republican
marty.
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HISTORY OF THE CASE.
ICnntinued from First Paqe.

day. The strike was well managed and
partially successful. On May 3 August
Spies delivered i fierce philippe against
the non-union men still employed 1T the
Mccormick work. and there was an en-
counter between the ''scabs" AID police on
one side and the strikers ON the other. A
short and terrible tight occurred; several
men were killed and many more wounded
in various degrees. From the hattie
ground August Spies hurried to the office
of the Ar6eitsr ZeituHg, wrote aud had
printed and distributed the noted revenge
circular.
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Ga the day after the tragedy the police
descended on every known Anarchist re-
sort in Chicago and arrested every suspect
ell man; before morning many had been
dragged from their beds. Every one IN
the .lrbfiirr N.iiuHg office WAS arrested.
August Spies, editor in chief, Christ Spies,
his brother; Michael Schwab, associate
Mrs. Elizabeth May Holmes,
contributor, eighteen prln-
tiers, two reporters and two mes
snn,tu1a Rmhnlnh S%rhnanhelt, who, 1t
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The Labor party at Cincinnati did the
laboring man not a bit Of good and did the
only party, from which the labOring man
can hope to receive any good, immense
harm.
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On May 4 there was rioting nearly all
day on Blue Island avenue, near the Me
Cormick works. The First regiment was
ordered to be in readiness at its armory
and the entire police force was kept in in
slant readiness. The Arbciter ZsitUHg of
that morning urged destructive action,
and the Anarchists were bUSy among the
strikers all day, Thousands Of copies OF
the following notice were scattered through
the city:
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ATTENTION MONUMENTAL

Great mass meeting tonight at 7:3G
O'Clock at the Haymarket, Randolph street,
between D~eSplaines and HalStead Good
speakers will be present to denOuuCe the
latest a~trOciOus acts Of the psiiee-the
shooting of our fellow wOrkmen yesterday
afternoon. WorkingmeD, arm yourselves
and appear in full force.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The word "Ruhe" (German for
''Peaee") alleged to have been agreed
upon as the signal for immediate reyolu-
ton, also appeared In that number OF the
paper.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-10

THE Pennsylvania Republican plurality
of 43, 900 last year has dwindled down to
10000. In philadelphia where i hot fight
was made the Democrats won with 10000
TO spare.
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UNDERWEAR! UNDERWEAR!

We have exercised great care in making the
selection and have received large additions to
our already large stock. We will be able to
show you the largest and best selected stock il
the city. In Ladies' We haze tha scaries. Cam
els Hair, Gray Sanitary and White Merino.
Misses and Ghildrsn's Scarlet. Gray and White.
The best Dollar Scarlet Vest in the city.
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IT SEEMS thst Ohio will have 10 change
her name before she ceases to roll up her
little bloOdy-shirt plurshty.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-10

WHETHER GROVER CLEVELAND Is the
next President or not depends on GROVER
CLEVELAND.
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THE height of HENRY GEORGES pop
ularity was reached last year. he IS now
on the down grade and the brakes won't
work.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-10

THE Cincinnati Labor ticket went IRE
vocably to smash yesterday. Labor men
acknowledge that it is beyond repair.
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THERE is no mistakiDg that endorsement
OF President CLEVELAND.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-10

THE name, GRovER CLEVELAND writ
ten across the hack of the New York ticket
did it.
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LET Ohio take her FORAKER and go
Goodness knows none begrudge her hei
prize.
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COMMISSIONERS SALE
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE.

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i OF Wheeling West Virginia.
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hand,
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her husband, and Agnes Flanagan.
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John NcLBrs's addition 20 The lily Of Nbeshes,
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